ISF Announces Arrest of Another Two Lebanese IS Militants

Two Lebanese militants belonging to the terrorist Islamic State group have been arrested in the Bekaa town of Kamed al-Lawz, the Internal Security Forces said on Wednesday.

An ISF statement identified the two detainees as 17-year-old H. F. and 38-year-old R. Sh., saying they were arrested on Thursday by the ISF Intelligence Branch.

During interrogation, H. F. confessed that in late 2016 he had communicated with several IS cadres in Syria's Raqa with the aim of helping him to join the group in Syria.

“A leader of the group urged him to stay in Lebanon and asked him to carry out security operations against the Lebanese army and security forces, but he rejected this, preferring instead to move to Syria,” the ISF statement said.

The 17-year-old militant later managed to recruit a number of his friends and convince them to travel to Syria to fight alongside IS.

He later received via internet from the other detainee an encyclopedia containing files that explain how to manufacture several types of explosives, the ISF said.

The two detainees also confessed to promoting IS' ideology on social networking websites.

The ISF had announced Tuesday the arrest of another two Lebanese IS militants with ties to senior leaders of the group.